There was no wind or waves in the desert, only a scorching sun baking the earth.

The foot-walking merchants who walk on the desert all year round have become accustomed to the monotonous scenery that sinks unchanging, to the hot sand under their feet, and to walking in silence.

The woman she met by chance in the desert was a typical type of person, and her caravan was full of this kind of people.

There were a total of seven people in the caravan, and after a brief understanding, Zhang Xiaodao learned that these seven people were all a family, and they were escorting three carriages more than a zhang long, covered with thick tarpaulin, and the scroll marks printed on the sand were not very deep, so they must not be heavy goods.

These people do not belong to any transportation gangs, in the eyes of the Reckless Gang, they are small and noisy retail merchants, where there is a job, they go there, live a life of licking blood on the knife, and the income is not bad, but they are all exchanged for their lives, maybe they will die in the desert that day.

Zhang Xiaodao's arrival immediately aroused the hostility of everyone except the woman, but it only took a short time for the woman to convince the leader of the merchant traveler, and he successfully joined the merchant brigade and did chores.

The merchant leader was a tall man, occasionally removing his hat to cover the sand, revealing an old and haggard face.

Three middle-aged men who almost never leave the cargo box are in charge, while the remaining three are tasked with scouting the neighborhood and exploring whether the route is safe.

The three people in charge of the investigation are relatively young, among them two young men have a somewhat immature appearance, but just by looking at their behavior, they know that they are veterans in the desert, and the woman has never taken off the hat, Zhang Xiaodao has not yet seen her true face, but occasionally sees the hot eyes of two young men on the woman, Zhang Xiaodao knows that the woman's appearance should not be too bad.

After four days of traveling with the business, Zhang Xiaodao gradually became familiar with the people, he rarely spoke in the business trip, never asked much, and most of the time was rushed to work.

Of course, no one will be bored when such a person walks there, and gradually everyone will become familiar with Zhang Xiaodao. Occasionally, there are jokes.

Zhang Xiaodao naturally responded calmly in the face of these jokes, occasionally making everyone laugh, and before he knew it, he walked for another three days.

At noon that day, he stopped to rest in the desert and put up a simple sunscreen, and Zhang Xiaodao saw that the bolt was a little loose, so he went to tighten. The woman who was still unknown came to him and said, "My name is Nalan Chu. ”

Zhang Xiaodao wiped the sweat from his forehead, tied the rope tightly, and sat down in the sand pile to look at the woman and said, "Good name." ”

Nalan Chu handed Zhang Xiaodao a pot of water, sat next to him, picked up the dry food in the package, handed it to Zhang Xiaodao, and asked, "How old is your mother?"

Zhang Xiaodao knew that his ability to enter the business trip was inseparable from the ordinary story he was talking about, and he had to play the image of a filial son. Hearing the word mother, she immediately said a little sentimentally: "It's a good thing, and I don't know how she has been doing all these years." ”

Nalan Chu took off her hat at this time, revealing her true face.

Zhang Xiaodaoben tore off half of the dry food and sent it to his mouth, and was suddenly stunned.

Nalan Chu usually speaks very little, wrapped tightly, not to mention his appearance, he can't even see his figure. The black gauze hat looked more like it grew on her head. Today's picking, it really amazed Zhang Xiaodao.

Nalan Chu has short shoulders and fair skin, not at all like a woman who walks in the desert all the year round, her facial features are well-defined, quite exotic of foreign women, and she does not lose the charm and weakness of a woman in the Tang Dynasty. And a pair of Danfeng eyes are even more black and white, as if there is a sense of determination, giving people a sense of heroism.

In Zhang Xiaodao's eyes, Nalan Chu's handsome appearance can be regarded as a hybrid child in his previous life. It's a really beautiful mess, so I was stunned for a moment.

Nalan Chu didn't care about Zhang Xiaodao's short-term rudeness, it seemed that this was the reaction that a normal person should have. She didn't care about it, she also tore off half of the white-flour steamed bun, put it in her red lips and chewed it, and drank a sip of water from time to time and said, "Little lady, my old lady died early." ”

Zhang Xiaodao suddenly understood the reason why she brought herself into the caravan, but she remembered the Wang family, the mother of Lingyin County, who was accustomed to her misdeeds but died early.

Nalan fell into deep thought when he first saw Zhang Xiaodao, and seemed to feel that this topic was a little heavy. coughed lightly and said solemnly: "My uncle admires you very much, I think you are suitable for this business, you can consider it after you go back to meet your wife." ”

Zhang Xiaodao smiled bitterly: "Let's go back and talk about it." ”

Nalan Chu nodded and stood up. walked to the dining place of the merchants not far away.

Zhang Xiaodao didn't walk over, he stood up after stuffing the steamed buns indiscriminately, and stepped out of the parasol to see if the bolts of the other two cars were still tight.

On the other end, Uncle Nalan looked at the direction of Zhang Xiaodao with a smile and asked, "How is it?"

Nalan Chu put a mouthful of pickles in his mouth and said, "After all, it's not a trivial matter, he naturally has to think about it." ”

Beside Uncle Nalan, a young man named Luo Zhi said, "Cousin Nalan, don't you take a fancy to this Xiao Si?"

Nalan Chu glanced at Luo Zhi, who still had freckles on his face, and said, "Shut your mouth, be careful that the little lady whips you!"

Luo Zhi shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "Uncle, why don't I see the potential of Quaha Youdao to do this?"

Uncle Nalan said: "He is very meticulous in his work, and it is enough to be worth this point." ”

Luo Zhi looked at his cousin, who he had admired for a long time, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but after all, he was a young man who had been trained in the desert, and he really didn't want to embarrass Zhang Xiaodao, but he still couldn't help but say: "Look at his small body, I beat him ten with one hand." ”

Uncle Nalan's family can walk in the desert, and they are naturally Qi refiners, of course, they can detect that Zhang Xiaodao's body has no vitality fluctuations, Nalan Chu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said: "He is an ordinary person, you are embarrassed to compare him like this." ”

Luo Zhi smiled, looked at the endless desert east and said, "My brother has been gone for a long time, why hasn't he come back yet?"

Everyone couldn't help frowning when they heard this, danger in the desert was everywhere, and this sentence made the originally relaxed atmosphere freeze in an instant.

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Luo Weaving, Nalan Chu, and Luo Ming are equivalent to the scouts of this caravan, and every day the three of them have to explore all directions around the route chosen by the caravan, and only walk on it after ensuring safety, which can be described as cautious.

Due to the scorching sun today, the business traveler chose to take a break for a while, Luo Ming naturally wanted to take a look at the surroundings to see if there was anything unusual, when his camel stepped on the sand and came to the east side of the desert, he was stupid in place.

He heard the terrible roar and the sound of fighting, which he feared most in the desert, and he immediately dismounted, put on his earthy yellow cloak the color of the sand, and crawled forward.

From time to time he reached the bottom of a sand slope, and saw that the caravans, who were no different from them, had been intercepted and killed by a group of sand bandits.

Donated blood sprinkled on the scorching sand grains and wisps of white smoke rose, the sand bandits quickly ransacked the large caravan of nearly 100 people, Luo Ming's face was ugly, knowing that this wave of sand bandits could not be provoked at all, he immediately crawled back to the camel and rushed back to the camp.

Luo Ming's return made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, but the news he brought back made the business traveler tremble.

Zhang Xiaodao took the sand-yellow cloak that Nalan Chu threw and immediately put it on, ready to start hiding his whereabouts.

Uncle Nalan understood that he could no longer hide the goods, and said ruthlessly: "Leave the goods, let's go!"

Zhang Xiaodao understood that such a decision was very difficult for Uncle Nalan, but it was undoubtedly correct, and after hearing this, he threw down the shovel, boarded the camel, and the eight of them quickly absconded in the opposite direction.

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance.

Killing bandits has always been a nightmare for merchants in the desert, they may be real bandits who are fighting and robbing houses in the desert, or they may be the transformation of a large caravan.

But in any case, small business travelers must be quickly avoided, otherwise they will end up with the destruction of goods and death.

Luo Ming saw the signs on this wave of bandits, and knew that they were not temporary cameos for business travelers, but the overlord blood bandit gang of this desert, so he couldn't help but urge more urgently.

Caravans have their own way of hiding their whereabouts, and bandits have their own ways of finding them.

After the Blood Bandits wiped out the hundred-person business travel team, they began to scatter and scout as usual, searching for any fish that showed their nets, but they were pleasantly surprised to see the Nalan Business Travel.

A loud horn blew, and countless face-covered sand bandits raised their blood-stained long knives, and with their roars, new targets appeared on the desert from time to time.

The sand grains were flying, and nearly a hundred sand horses wearing black helmets lifted dust and sand into the air.

After hearing this horn, Uncle Nalan knew that the sand bandits had already seen their whereabouts, and it was difficult to get out, so he immediately roared: "Kill!"

The seven people raised their weapons one after another, identified a direction, and rushed over decisively and resolutely!

Zhang Xiaodao fell at the end of the team, Nalan Chu had the heart to take care of Zhang Xiaodao and said on the side: "I see that your knife is very long, and it should be able to hit twice, at this time, you must not be cowardly, follow us." ”

Zhang Xiaodao, who was in the midst of the bumps, nodded, and his heart was slightly warm.

Although Nalan Chu looks a little cold, she is undoubtedly a kind-hearted woman, otherwise Zhang Xiaodao would not have appeared here today.

It's just that when he saw the beautiful picture of more than 100 sand bandits flying in dust all the way on the sand slope, he still couldn't help but be stunned.

Nalan Chu said quickly: "Follow closely behind me, let's kill out!"

In order to meet the situation, Zhang Xiaodao weakly met the seven people and shouted to kill, he knew that the falling snow knife that had been ridiculed by the brothers in this business trip these days seemed to have to be unsheathed.

The imposing sand bandits were well-trained and did not prepare to give the enemy any chance, and in a very short time they formed a tendency to close the desert.

It didn't take long for the Nalan merchant brigade, who had chosen the thin land of the sand bandits to sprint, despair, and now the sand bandits in front of them did not meet them in short combat, but relied on the degree of horses to arrange the encirclement more and more densely.

This kind of behavior has a term among the bandits, called "captive hunting."

Uncle Nalan couldn't help but feel desperate and said, "Wait for the three of you to try your best to break through, and we will cover!

Zhang Xiaodao said with certainty: "Uncle, you don't have to die." ”

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